this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
4 points (100.0% liked)

News

1751 readers
1 users here now

Breaking news and current events worldwide.

founded 1 year ago
 

Sept 22 (Reuters) - The Supreme Court of Alabama is weighing whether to allow the state to become the first to execute a prisoner with a novel method: asphyxiation using nitrogen gas.

Last month, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall asked the court to allow the state to proceed with gassing Kenneth Smith, who was convicted of murder in 1996, using a face mask connected to a cylinder of nitrogen intended to deprive him of oxygen.

Smith's lawyers have said the untested protocol may violate the U.S. Constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual punishments," and have argued a second attempt to execute him by any method is unconstitutional.

In a reply brief filed with the court on Friday, they called the nitrogen gas protocol "so heavily redacted that it is unintelligible," and said Smith had not yet exhausted his appeals.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i tried paying for my time at the no free diving site near me, but theres never anyone available. feels like im stealing!